By: Trokon Wrepue – trokon1992seokin@gmail.com
The Chief Executive Officer of Spoon Group of Companies Stanton Witherspoon risk losing his properties in the United States as the US Department of Justice has filed a request with a federal court to confiscate his properties.
Mr. Witherspoon along with defendants Alfred Sellu and Rene Bernadel were recently indicted for their alleged involvement in a fraudulent nursing diploma and transcripts scheme uncovered recently in Florida, New Jersey and New York.
The bill to forfeiture request, which was field at the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeks to have the properties of Witherspoon and some of his co-accused, located on US soil, seized as a result of their alleged participation and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses, netting a whooping US$114 million.
According to a court document, the majority of properties from Witherspoon and his co-accused that might be up for seizure are in New Jersey, where he Witherspoon resides with the rest located in Florida and Georgia.
On January 25 this year, the US government filed a bill of forfeiture to have properties of the defendants that are on US soil seized.
Forfeiture is the loss any property without compensation as a result of defaulting on contractual obligations, or as a penalty or illegal conduct.
